I had a Nuna (Pipa Lite RX) with my first and the Joie Mint this time and prefer the Mint! My baby always kicked off the sky drape on the Nuna and the Joie Mint honestly feels like similar quality to me (I have the maple that comes with the nutmeg). Strollers and convertible car seats are worth spending extra money on in my opinion, infant seats are outgrown too quickly to justify it to me. They all go through the same safety testing.
At the end of the day, they all meet the same safety regulations. I’ll say that my Nuna Pipa Lite RX had a lot of super nice conveniences compared to my SIL’s Graco. But both were safe seats! The Nuna just had the longer sunshade, magnets to hold the buckles open, etc etc.
As long as you can get a seat into your vehicle with a safe install, it doesn’t really matter if you go budget or bougie.
We went from Nuna Pipa Lite RX to Graco Turn2Me. We love the Graco!
For us, the benefit of the Nuna infant bucket seat was how light it was. We got it in 2023 when there weren’t yet lower cost, light weight competitors to the Nuna and Uppababy car seats and we were living in a city where we expected to go up and down lots of stairs (walk ups) with our car seat. If we needed a new infant bucket seat today, I wouldn’t hesitate to look at the Joie or other brands offering lightweight options instead. And then once in the convertible car seat, I don’t think brand really matters at all.
Yes, we had Nuna pipa lite, then a Nuna rava. Then I had twins. And we were briefly able to fit three across in my Volvo xc90 with her car seat and the two newborn Nuna pipa lites. After they outgrew the infant carriers, I did some research and got three graco seats that are made for people that want to do 3 across. I will say the materials are thinner, the seat does seem less heavy duty, but I have been extremely happy with the graco ones and feel silly for ever thinking we needed Nuna. Nuna is definitely nicer than graco, but I have no regrets about making the switch.
Honestly, I didn't even think twice about this.
We had a Nuna infant car seat because it had the features we wanted & others did not.
We have Graco and Evenflo older kids seats because those had the features we wanted & the Rava did not. 🤷🏼♀️
Fwiw My kids went from a Nuna pipa lite, into Evenflo Revolve Slim & Graco EasyTurn. I like the Graco easy turn more & typically recommend it -- but the rear-facing limits are lower & I only find it acceptable for my family because my kids are small/short (they won't crack the limits before 5yo). If your baby is tracking average or above on either weight or height, the Evenflo has high RF limits & therefore it is MUCH safer for longer.
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Super light, cheap, great for air travel, but outgrown fast.
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